Chapter Summaries

Liu Sandao returned to Dongxuan City after a century away as one of Ye Qingxuan’s Blessed Cultivators and reunited with the Liu Family, who had believed him dead. As the Three Thousand Blessed Cultivators’ return stirred the city and raised questions about their disappearance, Zhang Ergou reunited with Jiang Yinyin just as their Dongxuan Edicts began to glow.

• Liu Sandao entered the Liu Family residence, where Liu Yuan doubted his claim until Liu Dalong, Liu Erhu, and Liu Sanfeng recognized him as their father.
• Liu Sandao reunited with his children and grandchildren, then said he would explain his century-long absence only when one of them became a Dongxuan City Core Member.
• The Three Thousand Blessed Cultivators’ sudden return caused a commotion among Dongxuan City’s Outer and Core Members, who tried to learn where they had been.
• Zhang Ergou contacted Jiang Yinyin outside her Fourth-Tier Cave Mansion, and she came out delighted but confused by his return.
• The Dongxuan Edicts at Zhang Ergou and Jiang Yinyin’s waists glowed and shook, prompting them to wonder whether the City Lord had issued an announcement.

Ye Qingxuan announced new Blessed Cultivator rules and released three thousand quotas for Xingluo Dongxuan City's Core Members, while keeping the Realm Gate permanently open. Jiang Yinyin learned she could not exchange for a quota because she had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, but then received a personal summons from Ye Qingxuan.

• Ye Qingxuan announced the Blessed Cultivator rules, set contract quota prices, and made the Realm Gate between Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Xingluo Dongxuan City permanently accessible.
• Ye Qingxuan reflected that his cities and loyal Core Members had expanded across the East Extremity Domain and the South Barbarian, West Wilderness, and North Li Domains.
• Zhang Ergou urged Jiang Yinyin to exchange for a Blessed Cultivator quota, but she realized Nascent Soul cultivators were ineligible.
• Jiang Yinyin received a summons through her Dongxuan Edict and hurried toward Wan Ling Mountain, leaving Zhang Ergou behind.

Dongxuan City’s Core Members learned that the restrictions on Blessed Cultivators had eased and rushed to exchange for quotas. At Wan Ling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan offered the city’s fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators a special way to become Blessed Cultivators, though it would put them to sleep for around ten years.

• Dongxuan City’s Core Members read Ye Qingxuan’s announcement and began exchanging for Blessed Cultivator Quotas, while some Outer Members swore Dao Oaths to become Core Members.
• Li Yuan persuaded Mu Qingqing to become a Blessed Cultivator with him, and they exchanged for two Tier Two Quotas after failing to obtain Tier Three Quotas.
• Fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators, including Jiang Yinyin, Xueyu, Liu Feifeng, Li Mu, and Jiang Wen, gathered at Wan Ling Mountain and paid their respects to Ye Qingxuan.
• Jiang Wen asked Ye Qingxuan how Nascent Soul cultivators could become Blessed Cultivators despite the announced restriction.
• Ye Qingxuan explained that a special method could relax the restriction for higher-level cultivators, but the contract process would leave them asleep for around ten years.

Ye Qingxuan offered Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators the chance to become Blessed Cultivators, and they accepted despite their attachment to Dongxuan City. After the new cultivators settled into Qingxuan Cave Heaven, Ye Qingxuan returned to his main body and rapidly advanced his work on a Low-grade Spirit Treasure and a Seventh-tier Great Formation.

• Ye Qingxuan explained that Qingxuan Cave Heaven could support a dozen or so Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators in contracting Blessed Lands, and Jiang Wen asked what would happen to Dongxuan City's affairs.
• Ye Qingxuan reassured Jiang Wen and the others that Golden Core Commanders could handle the city, and the cultivators agreed to become Blessed Cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan directed them to make arrangements and enter Qingxuan Cave Heaven through the Realm Gate, where its rules and contracting methods were already in place.
• Newly recruited cultivators entered Qingxuan Cave Heaven and sought Spirit Lands; Li Yuan and Mu Qingqing chose adjacent Second-Tier Spirit Lands, while Jiang Yinyin and Liu Feifeng chose nearby sites.
• Jiang Yinyin, Liu Feifeng, and the other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators opened their Blessed Lands and fell asleep for ten years, while existing Blessed Cultivators gained more freedom to leave their lands temporarily.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to his main body with Seventh-tier Chaos Spirit Stones from Linyuan State and began shallow Closed-door Cultivation, accelerating his crafting of a Low-grade Spirit Treasure and a Seventh-tier Great Formation.

Ye Qingxuan completed his first Low-grade Spirit Treasure and Seventh-tier Star Dou Great Formation, both containing Star Profound Meaning Rules. As he prepared to leave Qingxuan Blessed Land, Qingxuan Cave Heaven began advancing toward the Seventh-grade Level, and Ye Qingxuan reassured his Subordinate Blessed Cultivators as their Blessed Lands expanded.

• Ye Qingxuan finished crafting a Low-grade Spirit Treasure, named it Star Xuan Mountain, and stored it away.
• After two more years of work, Ye Qingxuan completed a Seventh-tier Star Dou Great Formation array diagram that he could use to deploy the formation.
• As Ye Qingxuan prepared to leave Qingxuan Blessed Land, Qingxuan Cave Heaven and its Blessed Lands began shaking and expanding as the Cave Heaven advanced toward the Seventh-grade Level.
• Ye Qingxuan used the power of heaven and earth to tell his Subordinate Blessed Cultivators not to panic and explained that their Blessed Lands would benefit from the advancement.
• The Subordinate Blessed Cultivators calmed down and rejoiced as they sensed their Blessed Lands expanding.

Ye Qingxuan left his turbulent Cave Heaven Blessed Land and used his main consciousness to inspect Nanxuan City and the border pass being built against the approaching Azure Devil Realm. He learned that the city had settled its newly arrived mortals and asked whether any recent cultivators had caused trouble.

• Ye Qingxuan left Qingxuan Blessed Land and considered the border pass the Dihuan Realm Alliance was building in the South Barbarian Domain ahead of the realms' merger.
• Ye Qingxuan descended into his clone Nanxuan and surveyed the immense border pass, which would restrict Azure Devil cultivators below the Immortal Realm from crossing into Dihuan Realm territory.
• Nan Minghe reported that Nanxuan City had settled its assigned mortal residents, including more than two billion newcomers.
• Ye Qingxuan ordered that newcomers be treated equally and that children under twelve without Spirit Root Detection attend Nanxuan Academy for free.
• Ye Qingxuan asked Nan Minghe whether many cultivators had entered Nanxuan City recently and whether anyone had caused trouble.

Ye Qingxuan assessed Nanxuan City's growing population amid the northward migration and ordered the city to stop accepting foreign cultivators. He planned to reserve its Spirit Veins for future generations of local cultivators and decided not to install a Seventh-tier Star Dou Great Formation, trusting the existing defenses and border pass.

• Nan Minghe reported that Nanxuan City held around one hundred thousand resident cultivators and thirty thousand transient cultivators, and that its regulations were now being obeyed.
• Ye Qingxuan ordered Nanxuan City to cap its resident cultivator population at around one hundred thousand and close its entry channels to other foreign cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan reviewed Nanxuan City's abundant Spirit Veins, the nearly five thousand foreign residents recruited into the Nanxuan Guard Team, and the more than two billion mortal residents who could provide future cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan decided to reserve Spirit Vein resources for cultivators raised within Nanxuan City rather than accept more foreign residents.
• Ye Qingxuan considered deploying a Seventh-tier Star Dou Great Formation but chose to rely on the existing City Guard Great Formation, his clone, and the border pass under construction.

Luo Yuxin tried to buy a Third-Tier Spirit Vein Cave Mansion in Nanxuan City, hoping to settle there and pass it down to his descendants. He learned the city had stopped selling mansions to outsiders and restricted rentals, leaving him searching for another way to settle down.

• Luo Yuxin offered the Spirit Stones he had gathered to purchase a Third-Tier Cave Mansion in Nanxuan City.
• The elder at the counter told Luo Yuxin that Nanxuan City had ended external sales and limited each cultivator to ten months of renting per year.
• Nan Minghe had established the restrictions with Ye Qingxuan's permission to preserve Spirit Vein resources for Nanxuan City's future development.
• The elder suggested Luo Yuxin buy a mansion from an existing owner or join Nanxuan City, but Luo Yuxin refused to serve the city.
• Luo Yuxin asked how he could settle in Nanxuan City without being able to rent a cave mansion long-term.

Luo Yuxin considered buying a courtyard in Nanxuan City but rejected the steep price, while Ye Qingxuan remained committed to the city’s profit-focused policies. Ye Qingxuan watched the Border Pass being built as the Azure Devil Race’s arrival drew closer.

• An elder told Luo Yuxin that a courtyard in Nanxuan City's mortal district cost fifty thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
• Luo Yuxin protested the price but decided to wait rather than buy a courtyard, despite the elder’s warning that prices could rise.
• Ye Qingxuan observed foreign cultivators’ dissatisfaction with Nanxuan City's rental and sales policies and stood by the high prices he had set.
• Ye Qingxuan looked toward the Border Pass under construction and decided to remain in the Outside World to witness the Azure Devil Realm’s descent, with five years remaining.

Several months after Ye Qingxuan derived his Eighth System Spirit Root, Dihuan Realm completed a formidable Border Pass as Azure Devil Realm drew near. With the enemy world crossing the Chaos Sea, turbulence in the Heavenly Abyss caused strange weather across Dihuan Realm.

• Ye Qingxuan's Eighth System Spirit Root, a Wind Spirit Root, fully derived, and his Ninth System Spirit Root began slowly condensing.
• The Border Pass was completed, and Ye Qingxuan sensed its powerful formations, including at least three Tenth-tier Great Formations.
• Ye Qingxuan felt reassured that the Border Pass could stop Azure Devil Race members below Immortal Realm from entering Dihuan Realm.
• Three months later, lightning and dark clouds spread across Dihuan Realm as Ye Qingxuan watched the strange celestial phenomenon.
• Azure Devil Realm crossed the Chaos Sea toward Dihuan Realm, stirring destructive waves that disrupted Dihuan Realm's energy channels and made the Heavenly Abyss's energies violent.

As the Azure Devil Realm drew near, the Dihuan Realm Alliance announced the coming invasion to calm low-level cultivators, many of whom saw it as a chance to hunt Azure Devil Race members. Ye Qingxuan watched the border pass as the Azure Devil Realm finally arrived, bringing a sudden transformation to the skies over the Dihuan Realm.

• The Dihuan Realm Alliance announced that the celestial phenomena signaled the Azure Devil Realm’s imminent arrival, and low-level cultivators across the realm began discussing the invasion.
• Many cultivators, especially those in the Inner Five Domains, eagerly hoped to hunt Azure Devil Race members and advance, while Ye Qingxuan doubted most would survive to benefit.
• Ye Qingxuan watched the border pass near Nanxuan City and worried that Azure Devil Race members might get through and devastate the Dihuan Realm’s low-level cultivators.
• Roaring sounds came from the south of the South Barbarian Domain, and powerful Rule Power dispersed the storm clouds and manifested the Great Dao Laws across the skies.
• Ye Qingxuan focused on the south of the South Barbarian Domain and asked whether the Azure Devil Realm had finally arrived.

Ye Qingxuan reached the South Barbarian State border pass as the Dihuan Realm and Azure Devil Realm began colliding and fusing. With the realms’ rules clashing and blocking an invasion, cultivators on both sides used the brief peace to comprehend the manifested laws.

• Ye Qingxuan flew to the border pass after the manifested Great Dao Laws made space too stable for him to travel through the void.
• Ye Qingxuan saw violent auroras and energy tides at the southern boundary, then returned his main consciousness to his true body to deepen his cultivation.
• The Dihuan Realm and Azure Devil Realm’s crystal walls dissolved into one another, triggering clashes between their rules, destructive energy explosions, and the creation of fused new worlds.
• The two realms’ collision formed a dangerous boundary battlefield that even Mahayana Realm cultivators could not safely enter, delaying both sides’ invasion forces.
• Emperor Xieyuan told the Azure Devil Great Venerables to postpone the invasion and comprehend the manifested laws, as cultivators across both realms entered a temporary period of cultivation.

After three years of comprehending the manifested Heaven and Earth Rules, Ye Qingxuan saw them nearing their return to heaven and earth and suspected the Azure Devil Realm's invasion would soon begin. Three months later, he sensed a breakthrough at the Border Pass as a silver-haired Elder's Lightning Profound Meaning evolved into a world and collapsed.

• Ye Qingxuan emerged from three years of enlightenment, having advanced more than a dozen Profound Meaning Rules to the Sixty Percent Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan noted that the manifested Heaven and Earth Rules had suppressed travel and prevented him from entering Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• Ye Qingxuan sensed that the Dihuan Realm and Azure Devil Realm's rules had reached a balance and wondered whether their invasion would begin as the rules receded.
• Ye Qingxuan waited in the stone pavilion for three months, drinking tea as the Dihuan Realm's Heaven and Earth Rules faded.
• A silver-haired Elder above the Border Pass transformed his Perfect Level Lightning Profound Meaning into a vast world, which then collapsed inward.

After comprehending a Prototype of Lightning Great Dao Laws, Lingxiao Temple Master delayed his Immortal Realm breakthrough so he could defend the Dihuan Realm from the approaching Azure Devil Realm invasion. The Azure Devil Race crossed into the South Barbarian Domain and confronted the Human Border Pass, where Emperor Xieyuan challenged the Human Race to fight.

• Lingxiao Temple Master comprehended a Prototype of Lightning Great Dao Laws after three years of studying the manifested Heaven and Earth Rules, while the other Mahayana Realm Cultivators failed to break through.
• Cen Zhe questioned why Lingxiao Temple Master had not completed his breakthrough, and Lingxiao Temple Master explained that ascending now would prevent him from fully defending the Dihuan Realm.
• Lingxiao Temple Master warned that the enemy had arrived, waking the Human Race Cultivators stationed at the Border Pass and prompting them to prepare for battle.
• Liu Tai'an used the three years of enlightenment to break through to the late stage of the Void Comprehension Realm.
• Emperor Xieyuan led tens of thousands of Azure Devil Race cultivators across the boundary, dispersed the Spiritual Energy outside the Border Pass, and challenged the Human Race to come out and die.

Ye Qingxuan watched as Emperor Xieyuan led the Azure Devil Race in attacking the Human Border Pass. The pass absorbed their opening assault and its phantom contained their divine abilities, but the clash still shook the South Barbarian Domain.

• Ye Qingxuan’s clone quietly observed the Azure Devil Race Experts as the Human and Azure Devil Mahayana cultivators faced off above the border pass.
• Lingxiao Temple Master challenged Emperor Xieyuan to fight in the void, but Emperor Xieyuan broke free and ordered the Azure Devil Race to attack.
• The Human Border Pass swallowed and converted most of the Azure Devil Race’s long-range attacks, while Lingxiao Temple Master intercepted Emperor Xieyuan’s attack.
• Emperor Xieyuan redirected his assault toward the South Barbarian Domain, but the Human cultivators raised a seven-colored border pass phantom to defend the region.
• Emperor Xieyuan and the Azure Devil Mahayana Experts unleashed their divine abilities against the phantom, causing shockwaves that shook the South Barbarian Domain.
• The Azure Devil Experts contained the worst of the shockwaves, and the Human Border Pass restored its energy and continued suppressing them.

The two races’ strongest fighters entered the void, while their remaining forces clashed across the South Barbarian Domain and the Dihuan Realm began repairing the battlefield. Ye Qingxuan sensed that travel and teleportation would remain restricted and worried that distant provinces, especially Qingzhou, would fall into disorder and threaten the Ye Family.

• Emperor Xieyuan and the Lingxiao Temple Master entered the void to fight, but their attacks devastated tens of thousands of miles in the South Barbarian Domain and killed many Azure Devil Race cultivators.
• The remaining Human Race and Azure Devil Race forces began fighting, and Ye Qingxuan's Clone used Boundary Suppressing to attack a Mid Void Glimpse Realm Azure Devil Race expert.
• The Dihuan Realm began healing the ruined land, while the Heaven and Earth Rules of both realms remained locked in a stalemate and expanding Space Tunnels formed in each world.
• Ye Qingxuan sensed that the Dihuan Realm's stable heaven and earth still prevented teleportation and void travel, leaving cultivators to fly at greatly reduced speed.
• Ye Qingxuan worried that weakened oversight would cause distant provinces to descend into chaos and endanger the Ye Family, so he called for Zhaoheng and Zhaoyu.

Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu to protect the Ye Family for a hundred years, promising to repair their cultivation flaws when they returned. He gave them his World Map and a flying ship, and asked them to recruit two retainers on the way.

• Ye Qingxuan recalled that Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu had followed him for more than seven hundred years despite their stalled cultivation.
• Ye Qingxuan asked the brothers to return to the Ye Family, and they agreed to protect it for a hundred years amid the world's turmoil.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Ye Zhaoheng his World Map, which contained a wisp of his Primordial Spirit, and promised to resolve the brothers' cultivation problems after their return.
• Ye Qingxuan explained that changed heavenly restraints had slowed their flight and gave them a sixth-tier flying ship because teleportation arrays could not be used.
• Ye Qingxuan told the brothers to find one retainer each for him, leaving the choice to them.

Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu back toward the Ye Family as the world’s restraints made travel difficult. A month into the war beyond the South Barbarian Domain border pass, his clone gathered Azure Devil Race corpses and withdrew to protect the resources needed for Ye Qingxuan’s breakthrough.

• Ye Qingxuan told Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu to return to the Ye Family and contact him through Sound Transmission Talismans if urgent matters arose.
• Ye Qingxuan opened a realm gate and left after reflecting on the growing turmoil.
• One month later, Ye Qingxuan’s clone killed a Mid Void Glimpse Realm Azure Devil Race expert and carried the corpse back from the battlefield.
• Ye Qingxuan observed that the Human Race had the advantage and was driving the Azure Devil Race toward the Boundary Between Two Realms.
• Ye Qingxuan decided not to use the Death Curse Technique or keep risking his clone in battle.
• Ye Qingxuan’s clone left for Nanxuan City with six Azure Devil Race corpses to send to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and support his cultivation breakthrough.

Wormhole Passages opened between the Dihuan Realm and the Azure Devil Realm, letting cultivators cross and earn rewards for hunting or disrupting the opposing world. Ye Qingxuan realized both realms’ Heaven and Earth Rules were evolving toward Nascent Heavenly Dao, and hoped the Ye Family would survive the upheaval with help from Zhaoheng and Zhaoyu.

• Wormhole Passages appeared across the Dihuan Realm, and its Heaven and Earth Rules told cultivators they could enter the Azure Devil Realm for rewards or destroy hidden passages for feedback.
• Guangtou Qiang entered a White Wormhole Channel in Xing Prefecture, arrived in a concealed fissure in the Azure Devil Realm, and cautiously set out toward its surface.
• The Dihuan Realm’s message reached both sides of the battlefield outside the Human Border Pass, and Human Race and Azure Devil Race cultivators withdrew to their respective border passes.
• Ye Qingxuan concluded that both realms’ Heaven and Earth Rules were transforming toward Nascent Heavenly Dao and that the first realm to advance could devour the other.
• Ye Qingxuan worried about the Ye Family and trusted that Zhaoheng and Zhaoyu could protect it with his World Map.

Ye Qingxiao and Yu Xueqing visited Ye Qingxuan to announce that they were leaving on a patrol mission against the Azure Devil Race. They planned to patrol Daoguang Commandery for 180 years and protect the Ye Family, and Ye Qingxuan assured them that the family now had a Sixth-grade Spirit Vein.

• Ye Qingxuan received Ye Qingxiao's message and welcomed Ye Qingxiao and Yu Xueqing to his stone pavilion for tea.
• Ye Qingxuan asked why they had come, and Ye Qingxiao admitted that they had come to bid him farewell.
• Ye Qingxiao explained that Xuantian Sect had assigned its Spirit Transformation Core Disciples and remaining Void Glimpse Inheritance Disciples to patrol its prefectures, hunt Azure Devil Race members, and destroy wormhole passages.
• Ye Qingxiao said that he and Yu Xueqing would patrol Daoguang Commandery in Qingzhou for three sixty-year rounds and stay near the Ye Family.
• Ye Qingxiao worried that the Ye Family's low-grade Spirit Vein would hinder their cultivation, and Ye Qingxuan told him that he had given the family a Sixth-grade Spirit Vein Source.